Thursday, April 19, 2012

The Stage:
Habima, Israel’s National Theatre, is facing criticism within its own
country for agreeing to perform The Merchant of Venice next month at the
Globe to Globe Festival at London’s Shakespeare’s Globe.

Stage Directions:
Last fall ETC launched their “Show Us Your ETC” video contest, inviting
students at schools to make short (under 5 minutes) videos
demonstrating their “ETC” – enthusiasm, talent and creativity -- while
incorporating ETC branding, themes, and, of course, products. More than
50 schools responded, hoping to land in the top three of the finalists
where they could win an ETC Eos, Ion or Element console. Last week at
USITT ETC announced the winners of the contest.

Forbes:
Last year Golan Levin’s son decided to build a car. Aside from the
minor inconvenience of being 4 years old, the younger Levin faced an
engineering challenge. His Tinkertoys, which he wanted to use for the
vehicle’s frame, wouldn’t attach to his K’Nex, the pieces he wanted to
use for the wheels. It took his father, an artist, hacker and professor
at Carnegie Mellon, a year to solve that problem. In the process he
cracked open a much larger one: In an age when anyone can share,
download and create not just digital files but also physical things,
thanks to the proliferation of cheap 3-D printers, are companies at risk
of losing control of the objects they sell?

TECHBurgher:
On Thursday, May 3, 2012, the students of the Entertainment Technology
Center will present the annual Spring Building Virtual Worlds Festival
at the ETC this year. From virtual reality to audience interaction and
everything imaginable in between, this interactive experience of the
final student creations is truly a must-see event!